Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $0.13, or 0.06%, on lighter than average volume of 15,134,495 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $219.09.
Apple’s previous closing high was $218.95 set on March 5, 2010. Apple’s all-time high (intraday) stands at $220.09, set during trading today. Apple’s 52-week low was $82.57, set on March 9, 2009.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $198.66 billion since financial sites all use the latest published share count for Apple: 906.8 million shares outstanding as of January 15. However, Apple’s actual diluted share count, as per its latest 10-Q, was 919.783 million shares, which means that the company has a market cap of roughly $201.51 billion.” For the lists below, we’ll use what the financial sites use.
Apple went public on December 12, 1980 and closed with a market cap of $1.431 billion. Apple’s all-time low market value was $630.9 million on July 8, 1982.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies:
1. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $313.87B
2. Microsoft (MSFT) – $251.10B
3. Wal-Mart (WMT) – $206.04B
4. Apple (AAPL) – $198.66B
5. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) – $192.39BB
Some selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $178.86B
• IBM (IBM) – $164.21B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $149.61B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $121.98B
• Intel (INTC) – $114.73B
• Disney (DIS) – $64.37B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $57.84B
• Nokia (NOK) – $52.55B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $40.89B
• Sony (SNE) – $36.92B
• Dell (DELL) – $27.42B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $23.13B
• Adobe (ADBE) – $18.38B
• Motorola (MOT) – $15.98B
• Palm (PALM) – $930.14M
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $685.00M
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